OTHER INFO:- Processors running around 55°C on the stock coolers. Some 3rd party coolers brought the temperature down by about 6°C.- Processors are not officially supported by ESXi and therefore may not correctly apply CPU microcode updates - not usually a problem in a whitebox environment.- Onboard Intel/LSI C204 IDE/Raid/AHCI Controller: CDROM and individual HDD recognized in RAID and AHCI Mode but RAID arrays are NOT recognized.- Add-in (optional) ASUS PIKE 1068E RAID Arrays (OK, but RAID is dreadfully slow under ESXi I suspect because the Pike chipset is not a true raid-on-chip ROC and the small footprint hypervisor cannot support the complete driver)- Add-in Adaptec 2405 RAID Arrays with and without Chenbro CK12803 SAS Expander ver B0 (OK - RAID card functions in all 3 PCIe slots)- ESXi installs from CDROM connected to onboard AHCI (OK)- ESXi installs on and boots from 4GB Patriot USB memory stick (OK)- Some motherboard components interfere with Chenbro CK12803 SAS Expander and it does not fit securely in all PCIe/PCI slots.- Adaptec RAID 2405 adapter tested only on ESXi 4.1U1 and can be managed with Adaptec ARCCONF CLI (command line interface) installed on a remote windows client computer if arcconf-18781.zip CIM Provider (from Adaptec adapter storage manager download web page) and aacraid driver bundles (from Adaptec adapter driver download web page) are installed on ESXi host. - LSI MegaRAID 9260-8i works with MB BIOS v1101 but does not POST correctly for MB BIOS 1002 and lower (Adapter F/W tested was 12.12.0-0048 and v12.13.0-0104): Problem is that the motherboard loads the adapter config utility to allow new RAID configuration to be added, but on reboot, the POST hangs at "press DEL for setup" prompt. LSI 9260-8i can be managed from older version of MegaRaid Storage Manager if adapter installed on ESXi 4.1U1 system but this seems no longer possible at ESXI 5.0. Must install the latest LSI Provider and v5.34 driver on ESXi 5.0 to see the adapter instrumentation in vSphere.

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